Maggie Gyllenhaal leads star-studded premiere of The Bride! in London
Director maggie gyllenhaal brought the cast of The Bride! to Cineworld Leicester Square in London for the film’s global premiere, a high-profile outing ahead of the movie’s U. S. release on March 6. The appearance spotlit the director and her ensemble as the studio prepares for theaters next month.
Maggie Gyllenhaal on adapting Frankenstein
At the premiere, maggie gyllenhaal was billed as director and writer of The Bride!, a reimagining based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. She also serves as a producer alongside Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Talia Kleinhendler, and Osnat Handelsman Keren, with Carla Raij, David Webb, and Courtney Kivowitz listed as executive producers.
Cast on the red carpet at Cineworld Leicester Square
The Bride! stars Jessie Buckley as Ida, the Bride, and Christian Bale as Frank. The film’s ensemble — which appeared on the London red carpet — includes Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening in the role of Dr. Euphronious, Jake Gyllenhaal, Penélope Cruz, Julianne Hough, John Magaro, Jeannie Berlin, Linda Emond, Louis Cancelmi, Matthew Maher, Zlatko Burić, and Karin Dreijer. The premiere took place at Cineworld Leicester Square in London, England, where the cast gathered to celebrate the film.
What the director said at CinemaCon
Speaking at CinemaCon last year, Gyllenhaal described her reasons for following The Lost Daughter with The Bride!: “I was looking for ‘something pop and big and I wanted it to be radical at the same time. I was at this party and saw this guy with the Bride of Frankenstein tattooed on his arm… It hooked me…”. She contrasted her version with the original, noting, “In the original, the bride is in the movie for about three minutes and doesn’t speak, which could not be more different than ours. ” Gyllenhaal added, “I’m really interested in monsters, and I think that all of us have a little aspect of something monstrous in us. Monsters in our movie do monstrous things, but they’re also our heroes. ”
The Bride! is set in 1930s Chicago, where a lonely Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronious to create a companion and, together, they revive a murdered young woman known as “The Bride. ” The film’s period setting and central characters were part of the conversation at the London premiere.
Warner Bros. is scheduled to release The Bride! in theaters across the United States on March 6. With the global premiere complete, the next confirmed milestone for the film is that U. S. theatrical release date.
